Garment-supporter.



N. KAPLAN.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

APPUCATION FILED SEPTJZI, 1911 '1 ,2845704. Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

INVENTOR B 9/ 2W ATTORNEY NATHAN KAPLAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 12, 1918.

Application filed September 21, 1917. Serial No. 192,435.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN KAPLAN, a citizen of the United States, andresident of the borough of Manhattan, county of New York, city and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment- Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

The device the subject of this invention is a combination of a waistline body belt, performing all of the functions of an ordinary belt buthaving secured thereto a suspender passing over the shoulders andengaging with the belt at a plurality of points.

The object of the invention is to provide a firm yet flexible supporterfor the trousers and one which may be adapted for all general uses.

Should it be desired to use the belt alone the suspenders may bedetached, and the securing means removed from the belt with the resultthat the belt will have the appearance of an ordinary belt.

The following is what I consider a good means of carrying out thisinvention, and the accompanying drawings form a part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is a front perspective View of my complete device.

Fig. 2 shows a securing means.

Fig. 3 shows one of the buttons used in the device shown in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 shows a hook which may be used as a substitute for the button.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in all the figures wherethey appear.

At 1, I show a belt which may be formed of leather, webbing or othermaterial, and at one end of the belt 1, I arrange a buckle 2, ofordinary construction and operation.

In the belt 1, I produce a plurality of perforations 3 any one of whichmay serve with the tongue 4 of the buckle 2 in the adjustment of thebelt.

At 5, and 6 I show the shoulder members or straps or suspenders. Themembers 5 and 6 are brought together in the back and are joined by ametal plate or leather device 7, to which the members 5 and 6 are firmlysecured.

Through the member 7 I pass a securing loop 8 each end of which isprovided with a button receiving aperture as shown at 9 and 10.

The front side of each of the suspenders 5 and 6 carries an adjustingbuckle 11-12, theuse of which is well understood. Leather loops l3 and14 are suspended from metallic loops 15 and 16 movably engaged upon thesuspenders 5 and 6, and these leather loops 13 and 14 pass through metalloops 17 and 18 to each of which is secured a single strap or thong 19or 20. The straps 19 and 20 provide means for securing the front ends ofthe suspenders to the belt.

Passing through suitably arranged perforations in the belt are buttonssuch as shown in Fig. 3. The button consists of a button head 21 havingan internally screw-threaded shank 22. A screw 23 is adapted to enterthe shank 22 and is provided with a button head 24 which may be made ofprecious metal, or which may be decorated to satisfy individual tastes.

Four of these buttons are engaged in suitable position upon the belt bypassing the screw 23 through one of the perforations and firmly screwingthe shank 22 upon the screw 23.

The buttons may be all removed when the suspenders are not desired. Thebelt will then have the appearance of any ordinary belt but with anextended series of adjusting perforations.

In lieu of the buttons shown in Fig. 3 I may employ hooks as shown inFig. 4 or I may arrange permanently secured buttons upon the interiorsurface of the belt.

The metal loops shown in Fig. 2, and at 25 in that figure may be securedto the thongs 19-20 and to the ends of the back loop.

Any type of belt may be employed with my device and other modificationmade within the scope of the appended claims without departing from theprinciple or sacrificing the advantages of this invention.

Having carefully and fully described my invention what I claim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A belt having a plurality of perforations, a plurality of separablebuttons adapted to be secured in any of said perforations to beadjustable longitudinally of said belt and shoulder straps engaged uponsaid buttons.

2. A device of the character described consisting of suspenders, havinga back loop provided with a plurality of downwardly of said belt byvirtue of being adapted to be extending ends, each of said ends havingengaged in any of said belt perforations. 1G a button receivingnieans, asingle thong sup- Signed at New York city, in the county ported by eachshoulder strap of said susand State of New York this 6th day of penders,and each said thong being provided Sept, 1917.

with a single button engaging perforation NATHAN KAPLAN. and a belthaving a plurality of perforafitness: tions and buttons adjustablelongitudinally G. E. S. MARE,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G.

